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Number of First-Year Fellows by Subspecialty

Some data presented here differ from earlier reports because the table has been updated to reflect the most accurate data currently available.

	13/14	14/15	15/16	16/17	17/18	18/19	19/20	20/21	21/22	22/23
Adult Congenital Heart Disease						16	11	18	14	11
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology	61	73	82	90	100	103	105	104	102	91
Cardiology	859	861	902	944	999	1043	1094	1126	1116	1191
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	116	133	134	125	133	131	135	145	164	156
Endocrinology	301	293	301	309	335	331	354	339	363	353
Gastroenterology	493	507	519	533	576	601	620	635	655	674
Geriatrics	199	177	176	197	241	258	261	276	287	269
Hospice & Palliative Medicine	111	88	126	155	236	257	268	300	325	347
Infectious Disease	367	362	353	348	374	386	388	391	418	415
Interventional Cardiology	269	296	286	308	302	335	343	355	358	374
Nephrology	461	432	418	422	405	424	418	430	431	434
Sleep Medicine	71	81	92	99	137	158	164	169	177	197
Transplant Hepatology	30	39	35	38	47	51	54	49	50	47
Disciplines with combined training programs
Hematology	9	5	11	11	11	11	13	13	11	1
Oncology	45	34	21	19	21	28	25	24	14	7
Hematology / Oncology	533	565	590	588	595	611	635	675	682	715
Pulmonary	46	41	38	38	40	39	41	42	39	34
CCM	100	110	107	124	141	152	156	180	179	217
Pulmonary / CCM	524	517	556	587	631	696	704	737	783	810
Rheumatology	215	216	217	230	249	250	260	256	272	274
Rheumatology / A & I	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0